files disappearing from mac internal hard drive

#FILES DISAPPEARING FROM MAC INTERNAL HARD DRIVE DRIVER#

It may be a much older driver and you may not have set the jumpers correctly. If the drive doesn't appear and you have done everything correctly (connected all the cables correctly) then the following may be the problem. Usually you may only need to click on this prompt once. Turn on the switch on the power cable on to provide the drive with power.īut when you try to open one of the files from this old drive, Windows may send you a warning (something like the image below.) The prompt will normally appear because that file had file permissions assigned to it by the previous operating system and as such there are no valid permissions for it on this system.

Also, make sure that the driver jumpers are set to Master (modern SATA drives rarely use jumpers) and then plug the adapter into the USB port of your computer and the power via the Molex adapter unit. It comes with a side for 3.5 IDE, 2.5 IDE, and SATA. Once you have the appropriate cable, all you have to do is use the appropriate side of the adapter. You can purchase one of these cables on eBay and Amazon for a little over $30.

These adapters can be a little difficult to use but improvements with the windows system mean that they are getting easier to work with. You would need to purchase an Adapter cable or a converter cable that would allow you to mount the hard drive just like you would if you were attaching a flash drive to the computer. If you have a hard drive that contains data you want to recover but you don't want to put in a PC for whatever reason, there are ways you can access the data on the hard drive without putting it in the PC.

Files disappearing from mac internal hard drive